Twin cities: Urban communities, borders and relationships over time

(University of Eastern Finland) Twin cities are more than geographically proximate urban places. They result either from closely adjacent places growing outwards and 'crashing' into each other or from places located either side of an administrative or international border doing the same. Their relationship, whether conflictual or co-operative or both, has been seen by themselves and by others, especially governments, as special in some way. That specialness has often been legislatively articulated.

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